A Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of J.R.R.
Tolkiencompiled by Åke Bertenstam

The aim of the chronological bibliography given below is to give a complete
record of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's published writings: books, contributions to
books, and contributions to periodicals. Some exceptions have had to be made to
this stated intent, mainly for practical reasons. Thus the categories given
below have been excluded.

Letters. Apart from Letters itself
only the few letters to editors of publications that were published during
Tolkien's lifetime have been listed (see the letters published in The Observer,
Catholic
Herald, Triode, and
Daily
Telegraph). For a record of Tolkien's published letters, in whole or
in extract, I refer to Hammond 1993,
section Dii, supplemented by further notes in The Tolkien
Collector (see for example no. 6, 1993, p. 26 concerning a letter
about Tolkien's views about Esperanto).

Illustrations and art. Only Pictures and Wayne
Hammond & Christina Scull: J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist &
Illustrator have been given, the latter on the strength that apart
from reproducing a large number of Tolkien's pictures it also quotes some
unpublished writings such as an essay on dragons. This means that all
calendars, postcards, posters etc. have been omitted. For information about
these I again refer to Hammond 1993,
section E.

Manuscript pages and miscellaneous writings. In recent years there
have appeared several articles giving facsimiles of manuscript pages and/or
quotes from unpublished texts, especially in linguistic studies. These have
not been recorded below, except in cases when the full text of a manuscript
has been given, such as in the case of "Narqelion" .
Some of these can be found in Hammond 1993,
section F, supplemented by notes in The Tolkien
Collector.

Reprints. Generally speaking only the first appearance of a work
has been noted. I have, however, reported when revised versions of a text have
been published as well as cases when a reprint is far more easily found than
the first printing. Collections of Tolkien's texts have been listed, however,
even in the cases when they consist entirely of writings published previously,
but not other anthologies. For information concerning reissues, new editions
etc. I refer to my own Tolkien bibliography (see Jönsson
1983) and supplements to it (see Jönsson
1986, Bertenstam
1988, 1990 and
1994),
published in the annual Arda.

Lastly it might be noted that, even if exact publishing dates for the vast
majority of the publications listed below can be ascertained (largely through
information taken from Hammond 1993), I
have preferred to give the works in alphabetical order within each year rather
than in chronological order.

Introductory note to the 8th edition (2014)

After a hiatus of some eleven years this bibliography has finally seen a much needed and long overdue update. Apart for adding some 25 new entries for the period 2004-2014 numerous old entries have been revised, especially those concerned with the new edition from 2014 of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

Among the books added to this edition is The Art of The Hobbit (edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull). This has been listed as it contains reproductions of illustrations not included in Pictures or Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull: J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator.

It should perhaps also be noted that I have postponed adding some books for further consideration. These include books with quotes from unpublished academic writings by Tolkien such as The Keys of Middle-earth by Stuart D. Lee and Elizabeth Solopova.

Finally it might be noted that even if I have added the 2005 edition of Tom Shippey's The Road to Middle-earth to the list of sources no page references for this edition have so far been given to the reprints of poems from Songs for the Philologists.

1918

1920

"The Happy Mariners". In The Stapeldon Magazine, Oxford, vol. 5,
no. 26 (June 1920), pp. 69-70.Poem, signed J.R.R.T. Reprinted as "Tha Eadigan Saelidan: The Happy
Mariners" in A Northern Venture, pp 273-274 and in
The Book of Lost Tales, part II, pp. 273-274 under the
original title. In the latter a later version is also given (pp. 275-276).

1922

"The Clerke's Compleinte". In The Gryphon, Leeds, N.S., vol. 4, no.
3 (December 1922), p. 95.A poem written in Middle English, signed N.N.
Edition of the poem: "The Clerkes Compleinte: Text, Commentary and Translation" in Arda, årg. 4/5 (1984/85, pr. 1988), pp. 1-11. This edition has notes by Anders Stenström and commentary by Tom Shippey. There are also translations into modern English and Swedish.

A Middle English Vocabulary. Oxford: At the
Clarendon Press, [11 May] 1922. 168 pp.This vocabulary supplements Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (1921),
edited by Kenneth Sisam, and has also been issued as part of that book.

1923

"The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret
Unlocked". In Yorkshire Poetry, Leeds, vol. 2, no. 19 (October-November
1923), pp. [1]-[3].Poem. Reprinted in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (2014 edition), pp. 173-176.
The original version of the poem, probably composed c. 1919-20, and only slightly different from the version published in 1923 is printed in The Return of the Shadow, pp. 145-147. A revised version is published in The Lord of the Rings, Book One, Chapter 9 and as "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too
Soon" in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
The subtitle refers to the fact that the poem is based on a (seemingly) nonsensical nursery
rhyme, which Tolkien has "explained" by putting its disjointed lines into a
context:

Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such sport
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

"Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo".
In A Northern Venture: Verses by Members of the University of Leeds
University English School Association. Leeds: At the Swan Press, [June] 1923.
[6], 25, [1] pp.Two riddles written in Old English, appears on p. 20.
Reprinted in the revised and expanded edition of The Annotated
Hobbit, p. 124 together with translations into modern English on pp.
124-125.

"Henry Bradley: 3 Dec., 1845-23 May, 1923". In Bulletin of the Modern
Humanities Research Association, London, no. 20 (October 1923), pp.
4-5.Obituary signed J.R.R.T. that ends in a 13-line poem written in Old
English.

1925

"Light as Leaf on Lindentree". In The Gryphon, N.S., vol. 6, no. 6
(June 1925), p. 217.Poem. Reprinted in The Lays of
Beleriand, pp. 108-111 as a poem inserted into "The Lay of the Children of
Húrin" and with its introductory lines in alliterative verse printed on p. 120.
A revised version is to be found in The Lord of the
Rings, Book One, Chapter 11.

"Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres: being The Freaks of
Fisiologus". (ii): "Iumbo, or, Ye Kind of Ye Oliphaunt". In Stapeldon
Magazine, Oxford, vol. 7, no. 40 (June 1927), pp. 125-127.Poem, signed Fisiologus. Reprinted in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (2014 edition), pp. 216-220.
Despite its title this poem bears almost no resemblance to the one recited by Sam in The Lord of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter 3 and reprinted as "Oliphaunt" in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

"The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel". In Inter-university Magazine, Oxford, vol. 8, no. 2 (May 1927), p. 82.Poem. Tolkien referred to this publication as 'I.U.M.', but has been presumed
by John A. Garth (2003, p. 327) to be the Inter-university
Magazine, the journal of the Federation of University Catholic Societies.
For further information on this poem see the entries "Inter-University Magazine" and "Tolkien Notes 6" in the blog Too Many Books and Never Enough by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

"The Nameless Land". In Realities: An Anthology of Verse. Edited by
G.S. Tancred. Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1927. 31 pp.The poem appears on pp. 24-25. Reprinted in The
Lost Road, pp. 98-100 (with later versions entitled "The Song of
Ælfwine" given on pp. 100-103).

"Philology: General Works". In The Year's Work in English Studies,
London, vol. 6 (1925), pr. 1927, pp. [32]-66.Review essay.

"Tinfang Warble". In Inter-university Magazine, Oxford, vol. 8, no. 2 (May 1927), p. 63.Poem. Tolkien referred to this publication as 'I.U.M.', but has been presumed
by John A. Garth (2003, p. 327) to be the Inter-university
Magazine, the journal of the Federation of University Catholic Societies.
For further information on this poem see the entries "Inter-University Magazine" and "Tolkien Notes 6" in the blog Too Many Books and Never Enough by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.
Reprinted in The Book of Lost Tales, p. 108.

1930

1931

"Progress in Bimble Town (Devoted to the Mayor and
Corporation)". In The Oxford Magazine, Oxford, vol. 50, no. 1 (October 15th,
1931), p. 22.Poem, signed K. Bagpuize. It was later reprinted in The Annotated Hobbit, p. 212 (revised and expanded edition: p. 254).

1932

Appendix I: "The Name 'Nodens'". In Report on the Excavation of the
Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.
By R.E.M. Wheeler and T.V. Wheeler. Oxford: Printed at the University Press
for The Society of Antiquaries, [July] 1932. Pp. [iii]-viii, 137, [2] pp.,
[42] plates. (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries
of London; 9)Essay, printed on pp. 132-137. Reprinted in Tolkien Studies, Morgantown, West Virginia, vol. 4 (2007), pp. 177-183.

"A Philologist on Esperanto". In British Esperantist,
May 1932.Extracts from a letter written to the secretary of the Education Committee of
the British Esperanto Association. The full text of the letter is given on pp. 35-36 of Arden
R. Smith and Patrick Wynne, "Tolkien and Esperanto" (in Seven: An Anglo-American
Literary Review, Wheaton, Ill., vol. 17 (2000), pp. 27-46).

"Chaucer as a Philologist". In Transactions of the
Philological Society, London, 1934, pp. [1]-70.Essay, read before the society in 1931. (Its reading is reported in the
"Annual Report for 1931" in the Transactions for 1931/32. It was read on
16th May 1931 in Oxford and presented under the title "Chaucer's Use of
Dialects").
Reprinted in Tolkien Studies, Morgantown, West Virginia, vol. 5 (2008), pp. 109-171.

1936

"Bagme Bloma". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien,
E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of
English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Gothic, printed on p. 12. Reprinted, together with a prose
translation ("Flower of the Trees") in Shippey
(1982, pp. 227-228; 1992, pp. 303-304).

"Éadig Béo þu!" In Songs for the Philologists. By
J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of
English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Old English, printed on p. 13. Reprinted, together with a prose
translation ("Good Luck to You") in Shippey
(1982, pp. 228-229; 1992, pp. 304-305).

"Frenchmen Froth". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien,
E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of English at
University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on pp. 24-25.

"From One to Five". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R.
Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department
of English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on pp. 6.

"I Sat upon a Bench". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R.
Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department
of English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on p. 17.

"Ides Ælfscýne". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R.
Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of
English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Old English, printed on pp. 10-11. Reprinted, together with a prose
translation ("Elf-fair Lady") in Shippey (1982,
pp. 229-231; 1992, pp. 306-307).

"La Húru". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V.
Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of English at
University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on p. 16.

"'Lit' and 'Lang'". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R.
Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department
of English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on p. 27.

"Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite". In Songs for the
Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London:
Privately printed in the Department of English at University College, 1936.
iv, 32 pp.Poem, printed on p. 18.

"Noel". In The 'Annual' of Our Lady's School, Abingdon, no. 12 (1936).Poem. For further information see "A New Tolkien Poem" in the entry
"Tolkien Notes 8" in the blog Too Many Books and Never Enough by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

"Ofer Wídne Gársecg". In Songs for the Philologists. By
J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department
of English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Old English, printed on pp. 14-15. Reprinted, together with a prose
translation ("Across the Broad Ocean") in
Shippey (1982, pp. 231-233; 1992, pp. 308-309).

"Ruddoc Hana". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien,
E.V. Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of
English at University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Old English, a rendering of "Who Killed Cock Robin",
printed on pp. 8-9.

"Syx Mynet". In Songs for the Philologists. By J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V.
Gordon & others. London: Privately printed in the Department of English at
University College, 1936. iv, 32 pp.Poem in Old English, a rendering of "I Love Sixpence", printed on
p. 7.

1937

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. London:
Humphrey Milford, [1 July] 1937. 56 pp.Also issued in the Proceedings of the British Academy (vol. 22,
1936, pr. 1937, pp. [245]-295).
This essay is a revised version of a much longer work, Beowulf and the Critics.

"The Dragon's Visit". In The Oxford Magazine,
Oxford, vol. 55, no. 14 (February 4th, 1937), p. 342.Poem. Reprinted in the revised and expanded edition of
The Annotated Hobbit, pp. 309-311.
Reprinted in a revised version in Winter's Tales for
Children.

1939

"Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of Beowulf".
In Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. A Translation into Modern English Prose by
John R. Clark Hall. New ed., completely revised, with notes and an Introduction by C.L.
Wrenn, [and] with Prefatory Remarks by J.R.R. Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, [16
July] 1940. xlii pp., pp. [11]-187.Essay, printed on pp. [viii]-xli.

1947

"On Fairy-Stories". In Essays presented to Charles
Williams. Contributors: Dorothy Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, A.
O. Barfield, Gervase Mathew, W. H. Lewis. London: Oxford University Press,
[December] 1947. xiv, [i], 145, [1] pp.Essay, printed on pp. [38]-89. Printed in revised version in Tree and Leaf.
An edition of "On Fairy-Stories" was published in 2008: Tolkien on Fairy-Stories. Expanded edition, with commentary and notes. Edited by Verlyn Flieger & Douglas A. Anderson. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1 July] 2008. 320 pp.
In this edition a history of the writing of the essay is given, which contains unpublished writings connected with Tolkien's expansion of the essay in 1943, which were not included in the version as published in 1947. It also accounts for the revisions from the 1947 version to version published in Tree and Leaf.

1949

Farmer Giles of Ham: Aegidii Ahenobarbi Julii Agricole de Hammo,
Domini de Domito, Aule Draconarie Comitis, Regni Minimi Regis et Basilei mira facinora et
mirablis exortus, or in the vulgar tongue, The Rise and Wonderful Adventures of Farmer Giles,
Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall and King of the Little Kingdom. Embellished by Pauline
Baynes. London: George Allen & Unwin, [October] 1949. 78, [1] pp., [2] plates.The 50th anniversary of the publishing of this book was celebrated with a new
edition, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond: London:
HarperCollinsPublishers, [October] 1999. [6], xii pp., pp. 7-127, 2 plates.
(ISBN 0-261-10377-6). In this new edition the first manuscript version of Farmer Giles of
Ham is given as well the fragmentary sequel to the story.

1953

"Form and Purpose". In Pearl. Edited by E.V. Gordon. Oxford: At the
Clarendon Press, [11 June] 1953. lx, 186 pp., [1] plate.This text, appearing on pp. xi-xix, forms part of the introduction
(pp. [ix]-lii).
Reprinted as part III of the Introduction to Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (pp. 18-23).

"A Fourteenth-Century Romance". In Radio Times, London, 4 December 1953,
p. 9.Article written in connection with the performance of Tolkien's translation
of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

"The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son". In
Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, London, N.S.,
vol. 6 (1953), pp. [1]-18.Consists of three parts: "Beorhtnoth's Death" (essay), "The
Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son" (dramatic dialogue in rhyming verse), and
"Ofermod" (essay).
Reprinted in The Tolkien Reader, Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,
Beorhthelm's Son, Poems and Stories and
Tree and Leaf; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's
Son.
It has also been published separately: Pinner: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1991. 28 pp. (A limited
edition of 300 numbered copies published to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Battle
of Maldon.)
Tolkien made a recording of the poem, which has never been commercially released, but copies
of it on cassette tapes were given by the Tolkien Estate to the participants of the J.R.R.
Tolkien Centenary Conference, held in Oxford in August 1992.

1955

"Imram". With two illustrations by Robert Gibbings. In
Time and Tide, London, 3 December 1955, p. 1561.Poem. Reprinted in Sauron
Defeated, pp. 296-299 (an earlier version, part of The Notion Club
Papers and entitled "The Death of St. Brendan" is printed on pp.
295-296).

"Preface". In The Ancrene Riwle (The Corpus MS.: Ancrene Wisse).
Translated into Modern English by M.B. Salu. With an Introduction by Dom
Gerard Sitwell, O.S.B., and a Preface by J.R.R. Tolkien. London: Burns &
Oates, [November] 1955. xxviii, 196 pp.The preface is printed on p. v.

Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle:
Ancrene Wisse. Edited from MS. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 402 by
J.R.R. Tolkien. With an Introduction by N.R. Ker. London: Published for the
Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, [7 December] 1962.
xviii, 222, [1] pp. (Early English Text Society; 249)

1965

"The Dragon's Visit". In Winters' Tales for
Children. Edited by Caroline Willier. Illustrated by Hugh Marshall.
London: Macmillan, [October] 1965. vii, [i], 200 pp.The poem appears on p. [84]. An earlier version appeared in 1937. Reprinted in The Annotated Hobbit, pp. 262-263 (revised and expanded edition: the two last stanzas of the revised version are quoted on p. 312 while the whole of the earlier version is given on pp. 309-311).

1966

"The Book of Jonah". In The Jerusalem Bible. Complete edition. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1966. xvi, 1547, 498 pp., [8] pp. of maps.General editor: Alexander Jones. Unsigned translation, which has been edited for publication. A manuscript version of Tolkien's translation was published in 2014, see "The Book of Jonah".

1967

"For W.H.A.". In Shenandoah, Lexington, Va., vol. 18, no. 2 (Winter
1967), pp. [96]-[97].Poem dedicated to W.H. Auden. It appears in two versions: In Old English
(signed Ragnald Hrædmóding) and in English (signed J.R.R.T.)

Smith of Wootton Major. Illustrations by Pauline
Baynes. London: George Allen & Unwin, [9 November] 1967. 61, [1] pp.Extended edition: Edited by Verlyn Flieger. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [5 September] 2005. vi, 61 pp., pp. 59-149, [1] leaf of plates. (ISBN 0-00-720247-4). In this edition the first version (partly manuscript/partly typescript) of Smith of Wootton Major is given together with an essay entitled "Smith of Wootton Major" on the nature of Faerie as well as a time scheme and a list of characters.

1969

Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Illustrations by Pauline
Diana Baynes. New York: Ballantine Books, March 1969. 156 pp. Collection. Contains reprints of Smith of
Wootton Major, and Farmer Giles of
Ham.

1972

"Beautiful Place because Trees are Loved". In Daily
Telegraph, London, 4 July 1972, p. 16.Letter to the editor in response to an editorial ("Forestry and
Us", idem, 29 June 1972, p. 18). Printed in Letters
as no. 339.

"Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings". In
A Tolkien Compass. Edited by Jared Lobdell. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court,
1975. [v], 201 pp.
ISBN 0-87548-316-X (hbk.)
ISBN 0-87548-303-8 (pbk.)Tolkien's text, revised for publication by Christopher Tolkien, appears on
pp. [155]-201.
A newly transcribed version of the guide, entitled "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" has been published in Hammond, Wayne G. and Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion.

1976

The Father Christmas Letters. Edited by Baillie Tolkien. London:
George Allen & Unwin, [2 September] 1976. [48] pp.
ISBN 0-04-823130-4The Father Christmas Letters appears in four versions of which the
edition of 1999 is the fullest. The "mini" book edition published in 1994 omits all
letters from 1931 to 1936. The two latest editions are entitled Letters from Father
Christmas.
The version published in 1995 omits much of the text from the 1976 edition even if it has
some features not present in the original edition such as facsimiles of letters and
envelopes, as well as a few previously unpublished illustrations. Finally the edition in 1999
publishes the full text of all of the letters as well as several letters not included at all
in the original edition from 1976.
Later editions:
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994. 3 vols. ([96] pp.) (ISBN
0-261-10317-2).Letters from Father Christmas. London: CollinsChildren'sBooks, [November?]
1995. [44] pp., [10] envelopes, [10] loose plates in envelopes. (ISBN 0-00-137463-X)Letters from Father Christmas. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. 157 pp.
(ISBN 0-261-10385-7)

1979

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. Foreword and Notes by Christopher
Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1 November] 1979. [103] pp.
ISBN 0-04-741003-5Revised edition: London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. [103] pp. (ISBN
0-261-10258-3).
Apart from this book and other books with illustrations by Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Father Christmas
Letters, and Mr. Bliss) there are two other
important souces for reproductions of Tolkien's illustrations namely Priestman and Hammond and
Scull 1995.

"Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 June
1959". In J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam.
Edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
[31 March] 1979. 325, [3] pp.
ISBN 0-8014-1038-XEssay, printed on pp. 16-32. A slightly different version of the essay
appears in The Monsters and the Critics and Other
Essays.

1986

The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the
Annals together with the earliest 'Silmarillion' and the first Map. Edited by Christopher
Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, [21 August] 1986. [5], 380 pp., [2] plates.
(The History of Middle-earth; 4)
ISBN 0-04-823279-3

1987

The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before 'The
Lord of the Rings'. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, [27 August] 1987.
Pp. [iii]-viii, 455 pp. (The History of Middle-earth; 5)
ISBN 0-04-823349-8

1988

"Narqelion". In Hyde, Paul Nolan, "Narqelion: A
Single, Falling Leaf at Sun-fading". In Mythlore, Altadena, Ca., no. 56 (Winter
1988), pp. 47-52.See p. 48. This is the first publishing of the full text of this poem of
which previously four lines (out of 20) had appeared in Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 76. A later reprint, with a more correct reading of the poem appears in Gilson, Christopher,
"Narqelion and the Early
Lexicons".

The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of
the Rings, Part One. [Edited by] Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, [25
August] 1988. Pp. [iii]-xii, 497 pp., [1] plate. (The History of
Middle-earth; 6)
ISBN 0-04-440162-0

The Treason of Isengard: The History of The Lord of the Rings,
Part Two. [Edited by] Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, [7 September] 1989. vi,
[i], 504 pp., [1] plate. (The History of Middle-earth; 7)
ISBN 0-04-440396-8

1990

The War of the Ring: The History of The Lord of the Rings,
Part Three. [Edited by] Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, [September] 1990. xi,
476 pp., [1] plate. (The History of Middle-earth; 8)
ISBN 0-04-40685-1

1992

'Gondolic Runes'. In Hyde, Paul Nolan, "The 'Gondolic
Runes': Another Picture". In Mythlore, Altadena, Ca., no. 69 (Summer 1992), pp.
20-25.A facsimile of the manuscript is given on pp. 21, followed by a lengthy
analysis. This analysis is questioned on several points in a long letter by Carl F. Hostetter
in Mythlore, no. 70 (Autumn 1992), pp. 23-24.

Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age: (The History of The
Lord of the Rings, Part Four); The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of
Anadûnê. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. xi, 482 pp., [2] plates. London:
HarperCollinsPublishers, [6 January] 1992. xi, 482 pp. (The History of
Middle-earth; 9)
ISBN 0-261-10240-0

Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [11 November]
1993. 3 vols. ([96] pp.)
ISBN 0-261-10302-4Volumes 1-2 of this set of "mini" books (9 × 7.5 cm/3.5
× 3") consists of the poems that can be found in The
Hobbit.
Volume 3 contains "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" and "The Stone Troll"
from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. All volumes
contains illustrations by Tolkien.

The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion, Part Two: The Legends
of Beleriand. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollinsPublishers,
[September] 1994. xii, 470 pp. (The History of Middle-earth; 11)
ISBN 0-261-10314-8

1995

I•Lam na•Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of The Gnomish Tongue.
Edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne, Arden R. Smith and Carl F. Hostetter. Walnut
Creek, Ca.: Parma Eldalamberon, [8 August] 1995. 76 pp. (Parma Eldalamberon; no. 11
(1995))Selections from this have earlier appeared in the Appendices to The Book of Lost Tales.

'The Túrin Prose Fragment'. In Smith, Arden R., "The
Túrin Prose Fragment: An Analysis of a Rúmilian Document". In Vinyar
Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 37 (December 1995), pp. 15-23.This fragment, which so far was the only text published in the Alphabet of
Rúmil (further texts appear in "The Alphabet of
Rúmil"), corresponds to a passage in "The Tale of Turambar" (The Book of Lost Tales, part II, pp. 72-73). A facsimile of the text appears on p. 18.

[Various illustrations and writings]. In Hammond, Wayne G.
& Scull, Christina. J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995. 207, [1] pp.
ISBN 0-261-10322-9Contains some 200 pictures of which more than half were previously
unpublished.
Among writings not appearing elsewhere might be mentioned a quote on p. 53 from Tolkien's
essay on dragons, held in Oxford in 1938, and quotations from unpublished notes on Elvish
heraldry.

1996

The Peoples of Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [September] 1996. xiii, 482 pp., [1] plate.
(The History of Middle-earth; 12)
ISBN 0-261-10337-7This last volume in the series contains a history of the Appendices to
The Lord of the Rings as well as various late writings, among them the soon abandoned
story set in early Fourth Age, The New Shadow.

[Various writings]. In Flieger, Verlyn, A Question
of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State
University Press, [September?] 1997. x, 276, [1] pp.
ISBN 0-87338-574-8Among writings not appearing elsewhere might be mentioned three quotes from a
draft version of a note to "On Fairy-Stories"
(pp. 52-53) concerning J. M. Barrie's Mary Rose, two quotes from an unpublished note
headed "Elvish time" (pp. 69-70), brief quotes from and discussion of drafts for
the Lothlórien chapters in The Fellowship of the
Ring, not all of them appearing in The Treason of
Isengard (pp. 100-105), and extensive quotes from an unpublished essay on
Smith of Wootton Major (pp. 232, 234-236, 246-249,
251-253).

1998

"From Quendi and Eldar,
Appendix D". Edited with introduction, glossaries, and additional notes by
Carl F. Hostetter. In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 39 (July 1998),
pp. 4-20.This text is that part of Appendix D to "Quendi and Eldar" that was
excluded from The War of the Jewels. The subtitle for
this section is "*Kwen, Quenya, and the Elvish (especially Ñoldorin) words
for Language", and is given on pp. 5-11. An appendix, "Noldorin words for
Language" (pp. 15-18) is the germ of Appendix D to "Quendi and
Eldar".

1999

"Narqelion". In Gilson, Christopher,
"Narqelion and the Early Lexicons: Some Notes on the First Elvish Poem".
In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 40 (April 1999), pp. 6-32.A facsimile of Tolkien's MS, dated Nov. 1915, March 1916 appears on p. 5. For
an earlier, slightly erroneous reading of the MS, see Hyde,
Paul Nolan, "Narqelion: A Single, Falling Leaf at Sun-fading".

2000

"Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta".
Edited with notes by Carl F. Hostetter. In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 41 (June
2000), pp. 5-6.This text consist of notes that were unknown to the editor when
"Óswane-kenta" was published in
1998.

"From The Shibboleth of Fëanor". Edited with notes
by Carl F. Hostetter. In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 41 (June 2000), pp.
7-10.This text consist of notes to the essay "The Shibboleth of
Fëanor" that were excluded from The Peoples of
Middle-earth.

2001

"The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor". Edited by Carl F.
Hostetter. With additional commentary and materials provided by Christopher Tolkien. In
Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton, MD., no. 42 (July 2001), pp. 5-31.This text, entitled "Nomenclature" by its author, was excerpted by
Christopher Tolkien for Unfinished Tales. An edition by
Christopher Tolkien was prepared for but excluded from The
Peoples of Middle-earth. Much of Christopher Tolkien's commentary is included in the
present edition.

"The Quest of Erebor: Gandalf's account if how he came to arrange
the expedition to Erebor and send Bilbo with the Dwarves". In The Annotated
Hobbit. Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Revised and expanded edition. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 2002. xii, [i], 398, [1] pp, [8] pp. of colour plates.
ISBN 0-618-13470-0This account is printed on pp. 368-378. The earliest version of the text is
published in The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp.
279-284, and a later version is given in Unfinished
Tales. It was originally intended to be part of Appendix A of
The Lord of the Rings.

2003

"Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies". [Part
One]. By Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne. In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton,
MD., no. 45 (November 2003), pp. 3-38.Consists of additions and corrections to the edition by Christopher Tolkien of
Tolkien's "Etymologies" in The
Lost Road, pp. 341-400. The first part contains the entries for the roots from
A- to NEI(ET)-.

[Various writings]. In Garth, John, Tolkien and the Great War: The
Threshold of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [October] 2003. xviii,
398 pp., [8] pp. of plates.Contains reprints of passages from early poetry by Tolkien among them the
full text of "The Lonely Isle".
There are also numerous quotes from unpublished correspondence between Tolkien, Christopher
Wiseman, R.Q. Gilson, and G.B. Smith.

2004

"Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies". Part
Two. By Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne. With an appendix on the tengwar of the Etymologies by Arden R. Smith. In Vinyar Tengwar, Crofton,
MD., no. 46 (July 2004), pp. 3-34.Consists of additions and corrections to the edition by Christopher Tolkien of
Tolkien's "Etymologies" in The
Lost Road, pp. 341-400.

[Various writings]. In Hammond, Wayne G. and Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [December] 2005. lxxxii, 894 pp.
ISBN 0-00-720308-XApart from quotes from unpublished correspondence from Tolkien to Allen & Unwin and excerpts from Tolkien's unfinished index to The Lord of the Rings there is a newly transcribed version of "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" (this was previously published as "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings". This book also includes the part of Tolkien's 1951 letter to Milton Waldman (L no. 130) that previously was unpublished in the UK (see Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien).
Revised editions (within the same number of pages) of this companion have been published in 2008 and 2014.

2007

Narn i chín Húrin: The Tale of the Children of Húrin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [17 April] 2007. 313 pp, [8] leaves of plates.
ISBN 978-0-00-724622-9Title on cover: The Children of Húrin.
An attempt to reconstruct Tolkien's tale in full. Another version was published in Unfinished Tales.

2010

"'The Story of Kullervo' and Essays on Kalevala". Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger. In Tolkien Studies, Morgantown, West Virginia, vol. 7 (2010), pp. 211-278.Contains "The Story of Kullervo (Kalervonpoika)", pp. 214-235 (partly in verse) and two versions of the essay "On 'The Kalavala' or Land of Heroes" (manuscript draft, pp. 246-257; typescript draft entitled "The Kalevala", pp. 262-276).

2014

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [22 May] 2014. xiv, 425 pp.
ISBN 978-0-00-759006-3Consists of Tolkien's prose translation of Beowulf, a commentary to the poem derived from lecture notes, "Sellic Spell" (an attempt to reconstruct the folktale underlying the matter of Beowulf), and "The Lay of Beowulf".

"The Book of Jonah". Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien. In The Journal of Inklings Studies Oxford, vol. 4, no. 2 (October 2014), pp. [5]-9.Manuscript version of Tolkien's translation, which differs from the version published in The Jerusalem Bible. In the accompanying commentary by Brendan N. Wolfe, "Tolkien's Jonah" (ibid, pp. 11-26) an account is given for Tolkien's involvement with The Jerusalem Bible.